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9 ACROSS

I. Simpleton's confused about morn- ing. (6.)

5. My relations give me the pip. (6.) 10. Food for swine on board. (9.) 11. Drive. (5.) 12. "-and sighs, Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers" (Shakespeare). (6.) 13. It might grow slim with work. (8.) 15. He can field but not bat. (10.) 17. Scots river. (4.) 19. This scene is not omitted. (4) 20. Evidently the captain is seeking his fortune. (10.) 23. Man's a mud mixture at heart. (8.) 24. One of the partners, though weakly. (6.)

27. "All my bonds I must loose span" (Meynell). (5.)

28. Sold ranch for coal? (9.) 29. "Such a tiCe as moving seems " (Tennyson). (6.) 30. Shorten shorten. (6.)

DOWN

2. Most of the tree is the first victim. (5.) 3. Extinct sex instruction to the insect.

4. Scandinavian foal made of broad. (4.) 5. The last refuge of a scoundrel, said Johnson. (10.)

6. Sheriffs are marked with than. (6.) 7 I'm punctual,-and you? (9.) 8. Byron's bride. (6.)

9. Tightly shut? (6.) 14. Refreshment, not a riding prize. (7, 3.) 16. "An outspoken, flinty - lipped, brazen-faced jade" (Kipling). (5, 4.)

18. Is this the place in which to find a professor of crooning? (8.)

19. It comes off at midnight. (6.) 21. What a cheek,. and Shakespeare tool (6.) 22. She's pictorially invited to come home. (6.) 25. No Sir, you'll find them at the laundry. (5.) 26. Handy decoration. (4.)